Symmetry Tax Alpha
Solving the Challenges of Taxes and Investing
Taxes are one of the few certainties in investing, and they can significantly impact overall returns. With Symmetry’s Tax Alpha Program, investors with $1 million+ taxable accounts can substantially limit–or even eliminate–the long-term impact of capital gains taxes.
Investment success often comes at a steep cost—taxes. Depending on your tax bracket and the state where you live, long-term capital gains taxes could be as high as 40.8%, turning $1 million in gains into $408,000 in taxes, leaving just $592,000.
Traditionally, there have been few ways to minimize their impact. You could choose not to sell, but potential gains will just keep accumulating, and you won’t be able to enjoy the returns you’ve earned. Or you could invest in tax-managed funds or ETFs that focus on minimizing capital gains. But this may not offer enough personalization and customization for larger portfolios.
Direct Indexing is another, more recent solution. Owning individual stocks allows for a higher degree of tax management and customization that pairs losses with gains to reduce your overall tax burden. Unfortunately, the tax benefits of Direct Indexing typically disappear after 4 – 5 years. You can extract no further tax savings from your portfolio. It becomes “frozen.”
HOW IT WORKS
Situations Tax Alpha Can Address
To specifically solve these tax management challenges, Symmetry Partners has developed an innovative Tax Alpha Program. Not only can it solve the problem of “frozen” portfolios, providing 15, 20, or even more years of tax savings, it can also address other typical situations, such as transitioning from a highly concentrated portfolio, transitioning from one portfolio to another, or simply delivering a tax-efficient overlay on globally diversified portfolio with minimal capital gains.
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Understanding The Strategy
At the heart of all Tax Alpha strategies is a unique use of margin to borrow cash from your account using stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other assets as collateral. We use this borrowing power to build an extension that is typically 30% of account value long & 30% of account value short. (additional, more aggressive strategies are also available)
The 30% long & 30% short comprise hundreds of individual stocks that are different from any stocks you currently hold.
As markets fluctuate over time and these hundreds of stocks rise/fall, we use a systematic process focused on harvesting tax benefits for you.
Because some long stocks decline when markets fall and some short stocks decline when markets rise, this long/short approach may allow for more consistent tax benefits year after year, than typical tax loss harvesting.
Even after fees and expenses, typical tax savings range from 2% – 4% each year. **
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Maximizing After-Tax Results
When it comes to taxes, delay and inaction can be expensive. The Symmetry Tax Alpha Program may help you realize substantial long-term tax savings via overlay and transition strategies while addressing other challenges such as concentration risk.
CASE STUDY
A Highly Concentrated Portfolio with Substantial Taxable Gains
For investors, the platitude, "every little bit helps," rings true. Symmetry's Tax Alpha strategies have the potential to generate tax savings for those individuals who are working to save for their retirement. In this brief video, Symmetry's Michael Storer, Regional Director, tells the story of a client that retained such tax savings at a critical point in their life.
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Break Through With Tax Alpha
Is your portfolio frozen? Are you having difficulty finding more tax savings? Are you stuck with substantial embedded gains? What should you do? How can you break through to long term savings? Realize long term tax savings with Symmetry’s “Tax Alpha”.
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5 Tax Alpha Program Options
Core
Core Equity + Tax Benefits
Portfolio of individual stocks managed to mitigate risk with a goal to achieve strong, consistent tax benefits.
Overlay
Utilize Existing Holdings
Using current portfolio to help generate ongoing tax benefits.
Legacy
Transition Legacy Holdings
Transition current portfolio to new portfolio in a tax-efficient manner.
Business Sale
Minimize Tax Impact of a Sale
Generate losses in advance of a sale (or in year of a sale) to reduce the tax burden of the business sale
Exchange
Concentrated Stock Diversification
Tax-efficiently diversify one to a few equity holdings into a more diversified stock portfolio.
Delphi Plus
Tax Advantaged Strategy for the High Net Worth
Delphi Plus offers a differentiated approach that aims for exceptional returns and significant tax impact!
Extensive research by our partners at AQR has led to this evolution in tax-aware investing with an exciting new approach built to help close the gap between how investments perform and how wealth grows. Delphi Plus offers an investment strategy that is designed to:
- outperform the equity market
- with moderate levels of market exposure
While at the same time generating ordinary income losses.
While this solution is normally only available to Qualified Investors—with $5 million+ in investable assets, the “Educated Employee” exemption from the SEC means that Financial Advisors can also invest in Delphi Plus. The account minimum is $250,000.
Now you have a way to make a significant tax-advantaged difference for your UHNW clients AND yourself.
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When it comes to taxes, delay and inaction can be expensive. The Symmetry Tax Alpha Program may help you realize substantial long-term tax savings while addressing other challenges such as concentration risk.
Your financial advisor, in partnership with Symmetry, can help you select and implement the right Tax Alpha strategy to enable long-term tax savings.
This material is for educational purposes and its intended use is for financial professionals.
Symmetry Partners, LLC is an investment advisory firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or exempted or excluded from registration requirements. Registration with the US SEC or any state securities authority does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Symmetry charges an investment management fee for its services. All Symmetry fees can be found in the Symmetry ADV Part2A located on the website at www.symmetrypartners.com. Past Performance does not guarantee future results. All data is from sources believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed or warranted. Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that the future performance of any specific investment, investment strategy, or product, or any non-investment-related content, referred to directly or indirectly in this material will be profitable, or prove successful. As with any investment strategy, there is the possibility of profitability as well as loss. Please note that you should not assume that any discussion or information contained on this website serves as the receipt of, or as a substitute for, personalized investment advice from Symmetry Partners.
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ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Investing Risk: ESG Investments may not be perfectly correlated to the broader market indexes they seek to replicate. Stocks screened by the index sponsor for ESG criteria may underperform the stock market as a whole or particular stocks selected for the Index will, in the aggregate, trail returns of other funds investment strategies screened for ESG criteria. The individual companies deemed eligible by the index provider may not reflect the beliefs and values of any particular investor and may not exhibit positive or favorable ESG characteristics. The components of the Index are likely to change over time.
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